misduplication

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ duplication.

Noun

misduplication (countable and uncountable, plural misduplications)

  1. incorrect duplication
    • 1967, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan - Volume 40, page 25:
      According to our previous paper, proton tunneling lead to the misduplication of DNA; that is, in the case of excitation of an electron by light the misduplication of DNA by means of the proton tunneling can more easily occur in the adenine-thymine pair than in the guanine-cytosine pair.
    • 2001, Wayde Compton, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, page 17:
      There is change, but the changes arise out of slight misduplications of the pattern rather than from essential antagonisms.
    • 2013, Molly Brogan, Chasing Twilight:
      When I saw those words I guess I lost my concentration and thought you were thinking something else. Sorry for the misduplication.